One more refinement to this process. The problem arises after you turn off the n900 (having cleanly shut down LXDE). Once you turn on the n900, OO will work, using quickstarter, in LXDE until you shutdown and restart. LXDE.
I'm currently using the squeeze version of OO. I'm not sure if this is a probem with 3.1 or earlier versions
I also have this phenomenon. Even when it wouldn't start any longer in LXDE, there is no problem with debbie. In order to have OO start again in LXDE, I need to do a closechroot before restarting LXDE. (So no need to reboot the device at least)
I also have this phenomenon. Even when it wouldn't start any longer in LXDE, there is no problem with debbie. In order to have OO start again in LXDE, I need to do a closechroot before restarting LXDE. (So no need to reboot the device at least)
Doing a closechroot worked. Thanks for suggestion.
Now the first start up of OO is 20s from LXDE and about 3s to 4s the second try. Although a minor thing, hopefully the closeroot step can be ommited at some point.
I have a minor issue with running an application with debbie - namely the wonderful Eric I installed a couple of hours before... Sadly, while it almost seems like Eric was especially designed to run with debbie (gracefully resizes to a comfortable workspace), I can't get it to accept ANY keyboard input at all.
I've installed eric and verified your problem. I see that keyboard input gets sent to XTerminal from where I started eric and not to eric.
qole, any idea of how to fix that?
Sigh. Eric must be another app that has "broken" keyboard focus.
I thought that you have to do the same trick to Eric that you do to Xephyr when starting LXDE. But I installed eric4 and tried to get the keyboard to work with fixkbdfocus, qobi-wmhint-fix, and set-focus, none of which seemed to work.
Probably eric4 suffers from the same problems as qobi was experiencing with emacs, and it might need his method for solving it... Although I think that is already one of the two programs that I tried (qobi-wmhint-fix and set-focus).
Sigh. Eric must be another app that has "broken" keyboard focus.
I thought that you have to do the same trick to Eric that you do to Xephyr when starting LXDE. But I installed eric4 and tried to get the keyboard to work with fixkbdfocus, qobi-wmhint-fix, and set-focus, none of which seemed to work.
Probably eric4 suffers from the same problems as qobi was experiencing with emacs, and it might need his method for solving it... Although I think that is already one of the two programs that I tried (qobi-wmhint-fix and set-focus).
Sadly, that doesn't seem to work for me - though it might just as well be because I'm not sure I fully understood the instructions. Despite being a developer I'm still a terrible noob when it comes to OS specific things.
Guess I'll just have to wait until a different fix (or some idiot proof way for using the current ones) surfaces that actually works with Eric. Until then I'll just enjoy it from within LXDE.
Though, correct me if I got this wrong - using it from within will not allow for instant testing, since there's no way to get access to the Maemo python instance?
Anyway, thanks a lot for your help, rebhana & qole!
Though, correct me if I got this wrong - using it from within will not allow for instant testing, since there's no way to get access to the Maemo python instance?
Actually, that's no problem at all. Just save your work in a subdirectory of /home/user and it is accessible from both Debian and Maemo.
So just keep a Maemo terminal open and you can run your python programs from there. Flip back and forth with the Ctrl-backarrow.
